"Dawn French Dawn Roma French (born 11 October 1957) is a British actress, writer, comedian and presenter from Holyhead, Wales. She is best known for starring in and writing for the BBC comedy sketch show ""French and Saunders"" with comedy partner Jennifer Saunders and for playing the lead role as Geraldine Granger in the BBC sitcom ""The Vicar of Dibley"". French has been nominated for seven BAFTA TV Awards and also won a BAFTA Fellowship with Jennifer Saunders. French was born in Holyhead, to English parents Denys Vernon French (5 August 1932 – 11 September 1977) and Felicity Roma French"
"Michelle Pfeiffer Michelle Marie Pfeiffer (; born April 29, 1958) is an American actress and producer. One of the most popular actresses of the 1980s and 1990s, she has received international acclaim and many accolades for her work in both comedic and dramatic films. Noted for her versatility as a character actress, Pfeiffer has become particularly known for portraying nuanced and unglamorous, emotionally distant women as well as strong female characters with intense sex appeal. Pfeiffer is widely considered to be among the most talented actresses of her generation. Pfeiffer began to pursue an acting career in 1978. After accepting"
"Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy Dawn French's Girls Who Do Comedy is an interview series shown on BBC Four. In the series, Dawn French interviewed some of the most prolific comedians of the century from Phyllis Diller to Catherine Tate and asked about life, love, family and comedy. The series was shown as three episodes featuring clips from French's various interviews with different comedians, however, from 25 to 30 December 2006 BBC Four showed six full interviews of 20–30 minutes. They are (in order of re-broadcast on BBC Four) Whoopi Goldberg, Catherine Tate, Kathy Burke, Julie Walters, Victoria Wood"
"in 1936, built, founded, and managed the National Theatre. Ann Maria Thorne Ann Maria Thorne, more widely known as Mrs. French ""("" Mestayer; 1813 Philadelphia – 20 June 1881 Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York) was an early American concert singer and actress from Philadelphia. As ""Mrs. French,"" she was among the most famous singers in America during the 1820s. According to an 1896 publication, ""Annals of Music in Philadelphia and History of the Musical Fund Society,"" another singer, Mrs. Burke, had been the most famous American singer until she was outrivaled by Mrs. French. Mrs. French had studied music with Benjamin Carr,"
"if a death certificate is obligatory. Any persons, private or Press, you shall simply say that I am no longer at this address. ""Gone away. Destination unknown"", and that is the truth. Frances Day Frances Day (born Frances Victoria Schenk; December 16, 1907 – April 29, 1984) was an American actress and singer who achieved great popularity in the UK in the 1930s. Her career began as a nightclub cabaret singer in New York City and London. She made her London stage debut as a double act at the New Cross Empire with the dancer John Mills (later a distinguished"
"long running soap opera ""Days of Our Lives"". She is married to Michael Duff, who is a singer and a guitarist in his band Chalk FarM. They have one daughter, Paris Helena Duff, who is building a career as a model. Denice Duff Denice Marie Duff (born July 1, 1965 in New York City) is an American actress, director, and photographer, who is best known for her roles as Michelle Morgan in Full Moon Features' ""Subspecies"" series and as Amanda Browning in the long-running soap opera series ""The Young and the Restless"". Denice was discovered by manager Jay Bernstein during"
"Frances Day Frances Day (born Frances Victoria Schenk; December 16, 1907 – April 29, 1984) was an American actress and singer who achieved great popularity in the UK in the 1930s. Her career began as a nightclub cabaret singer in New York City and London. She made her London stage debut as a double act at the New Cross Empire with the dancer John Mills (later a distinguished actor), billed as ""Mills and Day"". This led to a chorus role in the 1929 West End production of ""The Five O'Clock Girl"" at the Hippodrome, which toured the provinces in 1930."
"Blair Brown Bonnie Blair Brown (born April 23, 1946) is an American theater, film and television actress. She has had a number of high-profile roles, including in the play ""Copenhagen"" on Broadway, the leading actress in the films ""Altered States"" (1980), ""Continental Divide"" (1981) and ""Strapless"" (1989), as well as a run as the title character in the comedy-drama television series ""The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd"", which ran from 1987 to 1991. Her later roles include Nina Sharp on the Fox television series ""Fringe"" and Judy King on the Netflix series ""Orange Is the New Black"". Brown was"
"British Empire (OBE) for her services to drama. In 2018, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Gillian Anderson Gillian Leigh Anderson, (born August 9, 1968) is an American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer. Her credits include the roles of FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the long-running series ""The X-Files"", ill-fated socialite Lily Bart in Terence Davies' film ""The House of Mirth"" (2000), and DSU Stella Gibson on the BBC crime drama television series ""The Fall"". Among other honours, Anderson has won a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award and two Screen"
"Jane Leeves Jane Elizabeth Leeves (born 18 April 1961) is an English actress, model, producer, comedienne, singer, and dancer. She is best known for playing Daphne Moon on the television sitcom ""Frasier"" from 1993 until 2004, for which she was nominated for Emmy Awards and Golden Globe Awards. She is also known for her role as Joy Scroggs on TV Land's sitcom ""Hot in Cleveland"". Leeves made her screen debut with a small role in 1983 on the British comedy television show ""The Benny Hill Show"", and appeared as a dancer in ""Monty Python's The Meaning of Life"". She moved"
"Britain when she was three. She attended Benenden Boarding School in Kent. Robinson has four elder paternal half-siblings, one of whom is Brody Dalle (born Bree Joanna Alice Robinson) of punk rock band the Distillers and alternative rock band Spinnerette. As adults they first met in 2004, backstage at one of Dalle's concerts at the Brixton Academy. Morgana Robinson Morgana Robinson (born 7 May 1982) is a BAFTA winning Australian-born English comedian, writer and actress, who is best known for her comedy sketch programme ""The Morgana Show"", ""Morgana Robinson's The Agency"", appearances on ""The TNT Show"", ""House of Fools"" and"
"Donna Fargo Donna Fargo (born Yvonne Vaughn , November 10, 1945, in Mount Airy, North Carolina) is an American country singer-songwriter, who is best known for a series of Top 10 country hits in the 1970s. These include ""The Happiest Girl in the Whole USA"" and ""Funny Face,"" both which became crossover pop hits in 1972. Fargo has won major awards since her debut in the late 1960s, including one Grammy Award, five awards from the Academy of Country Music and one award from the Country Music Association. Fargo had been singing since her early years, but never thought about"
"Barbra Streisand Barbara Joan ""Barbra"" Streisand (; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, songwriter, actress, and filmmaker. In a career spanning six decades, she has achieved success in multiple fields of entertainment and has been recognized with two Academy Awards, ten Grammy Awards including the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and the Grammy Legend Award, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Kennedy Center Honors prize, four Peabody Awards, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and nine Golden Globes. She is among a small group of entertainers who have been"
"Alive"" tour ran until the end of 2008, and then resumed in Australia in the summer of 2009. In 2009, they were jointly awarded the BAFTA Fellowship. Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders met in 1978 while they were students at the Central School of Speech and Drama and began their career to collaborate on several comedy projects. They came to prominence in the early 1980s for performing at the London alternative comedy club ""The Comic Strip"", which also gave its name to its eponymous television series and the informal grouping of so-called ""alternative comedians"". French and Saunders were featured on"
"actor and voice actor; Peter Gallagher (B.A. 1977), actor; Tracy Chapman (B.A. 1987), singer-songwriter; Deke Sharon (B.A. 1991), a cappella musician; Darin Strauss (B.A. 1992), National Book Critics Circle Award-winning author; Ruben Bolling (real name Ken Fisher) (B.A. 1984), cartoonist and writer; and Gregory Maguire (Ph.D. 1990), novelist. Other alumni include Michelle Kwan (M.A. 2011), Olympic medalist and World Champion figure skater from the United States; Frederick Hauck (B.A. 1962), spacecraft commander of the Space Shuttle Discovery; Rear Admiral Leo Otis Colbert (B.S. 1907), the third Director of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey; and Thelma C. Swain (B.A."
"Viva la Diva (Darcey Bussell and Katherine Jenkins) Viva la Diva is an operatic ballet show by Welsh mezzo-soprano Katherine Jenkins and prima ballerina Darcey Bussell, CBE. In the show Jenkins and Bussell pay homage to past 'divas' and idols, including Doris Day, Edith Piaf (who died in 1963), Marilyn Monroe (who died in 1962), Maria Callas (who died in 1977), Fred Astaire (who died in 1987), Audrey Hepburn (who died in 1993) and Moira Shearer (who died in 2006). Choreographer Kim Gavin directs. The object of the show was to primarily swap talents. Bussell and Jenkins sang and danced"
"Frances Bavier Frances Elizabeth Bavier (December 14, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American stage and television actress. Originally from New York theatre, she worked in film and television from the 1950s until the 1970s. She is best known for her role of Aunt Bee on ""The Andy Griffith Show"" and ""Mayberry R.F.D."" from 1960 to 1970. Aunt Bee logged more Mayberry years (ten) than any other character. She won an Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Comedy Actress for the role in 1967. Born in New York City in a brownstone on Gramercy Park to Charles S., a stationary"
"Pamela Hirsch to help raise funds for medical expenses imposed on infertile couples. She had a role in the spy action film """" (2015). America Olivo America Athene Campbell (née Olivo; born January 5, 1978) is an American actress, singer and model best known as a member of the band Soluna, for her roles in the films ""Bitch Slap"" (2009), ""Friday the 13th"" (2009) and ""Maniac"" (2012) as well as starring in the Broadway musical """". Born in Van Nuys, California, she has multiple citizenships: American, Canadian and Italian. Olivo is the daughter of Danica d'Hondt, of Belgian and Irish"
"Billie Holiday Eleanora Fagan (April 7, 1915 – July 17, 1959), better known as Billie Holiday, was an American jazz singer with a career spanning nearly thirty years. Nicknamed ""Lady Day"" by her friend and music partner Lester Young, Holiday had a seminal influence on jazz music and pop singing. Her vocal style, strongly inspired by jazz instrumentalists, pioneered a new way of manipulating phrasing and tempo. She was known for her vocal delivery and improvisational skills, which made up for her limited range and lack of formal music education. After a turbulent childhood, Holiday began singing in nightclubs in"
"is Sylvia Young, the founder of the famous theatre school at which Frances trained. Frances married director John Caird in 1990. They have two children: daughter, Eliza Doolittle, and son, Nathaniel George (born in 1990). Frances Ruffelle Frances Ruffelle (born Frances Jane Ruffell; 29 August 1965) is an English musical theatre actress and recording artist. She won a Tony Award in 1987 and represented the United Kingdom in the 1994 Eurovision Song Contest with the song ""Lonely Symphony (We Will Be Free)"", finishing 10th. The song became a UK Top 30 hit. In 1984, Ruffelle starred as Dinah in the"
"actresses. Novelist Steve Erickson, contributing to ""Los Angeles Magazine"", wrote that Pfeiffer ""threatened to become one of the four or five great American film actresses of her generation"" during her thirties, ""well past the starlet age"". Deemed one of the industry's ""most interesting"" actresses by ""The Daily Beast"", Pfeiffer is particularly well known for her versatile performances, boasting a diverse filmography that spans the period, romance, fantasy, musical, comedy and drama genres. In 2016, ""Salon""'s Charles Taylor declared ""No other actor of the past 10 to 12 years has come close to Michelle Pfeiffer for sheer versatility"", believing that few"
"Ann Maria Thorne Ann Maria Thorne, more widely known as Mrs. French ""("" Mestayer; 1813 Philadelphia – 20 June 1881 Cornwall-on-Hudson, New York) was an early American concert singer and actress from Philadelphia. As ""Mrs. French,"" she was among the most famous singers in America during the 1820s. According to an 1896 publication, ""Annals of Music in Philadelphia and History of the Musical Fund Society,"" another singer, Mrs. Burke, had been the most famous American singer until she was outrivaled by Mrs. French. Mrs. French had studied music with Benjamin Carr, an early American composer, music publisher, and music teacher"
"an ongoing influence on American music. She is the recipient of four Grammy Awards, all of them posthumous awards for Best Historical Album. Holiday was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1973. ""Lady Sings the Blues"", a film about her life, starring Diana Ross, was released in 1972. She is the primary character in the play and later the film ""Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill""; the role was originated by Reenie Upchurch in 1986 and was played by Audra McDonald on Broadway and in the film. Eleanora Fagan was born on April 7, 1915, in Philadelphia,"
"– ""Chop Shop"" 23rd Independent Spirit Awards The 23rd Independent Spirit Awards, honoring the best in independent filmmaking for 2007, were announced on February 23, 2008. It was hosted by Rainn Wilson. Juno The Lookout ""'Julian Schnabel – ""The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"" ""'Philip Seymour Hoffman – ""The Savages"" ""'Ellen Page – ""Juno"" ""'Chiwetel Ejiofor – ""Talk to Me"" ""'Cate Blanchett – ""I'm Not There"" ""The Savages"" – Tamara Jenkins ""Juno"" – Diablo Cody ""The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"" – Janusz Kamiński ""Once"" • Ireland Crazy Love August Evening The Unforeseen ""'Neil Kopp – ""Paranoid Park"" and ""Old"
"-- Ray DiPalma -- Michael Palmer -- Michael Davidson -- Bernadette Mayer -- James Sherry -- Ron Silliman -- Rae Armantrout -- Bob Perelman -- Barrett Watten -- Kit Robinson -- Charles Bernstein -- Alan Davies -- Jean Day -- John Cage -- Jackson Mac Low -- Kenward Elmslie -- Jerome Rothenberg -- David Antin -- Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones -- Joan Retallack -- John Taggart -- Nicole Brossard -- Mac Wellman -- Douglas Messerli -- Peter Inman -- Steve McCaffery -- Nathaniel Mackey -- Leslie Scalapino -- Bruce Andrews -- Steve Benson -- Abigail Child -- Tina Darragh -- Fiona"
"Denice Duff Denice Marie Duff (born July 1, 1965 in New York City) is an American actress, director, and photographer, who is best known for her roles as Michelle Morgan in Full Moon Features' ""Subspecies"" series and as Amanda Browning in the long-running soap opera series ""The Young and the Restless"". Denice was discovered by manager Jay Bernstein during a Hollywood Talent Search contest. She worked as an office intern in the contest office and the judges convinced her to audition. She was the only actress of 2000 who auditioned that was picked by Mr. Bernstein for representation. Brought to"
"Michelle Morgan (actress) Michelle Morgan (born July 16, 1981) is a Canadian actress and singer. She is the fourth of six children. On June 30, 2012 she married Derek Tisdelle. They have two children: a daughter, Mara Carmen, who was born on 1 April 2011 and a son, Noah Santiago, who was born on 30 September 2013. She is featured in the drama series ""Heartland"" as Amy Fleming's older sister Lou and in the 2008 zombie horror film ""Diary of the Dead"". In January 2008 she appeared on ""Stargate Atlantis"" as FRAN (Friendly Replicator Android) in the episode ""Be All"
"Bonnie Franklin, Melissa Gilbert, Danielle Brisebois, Erika Eleniak, Max Pomeranc, Christina Ricci, Shelley Fabares, Candace Cameron Bure, Karron Graves, Gaby Hoffmann, Hilary Duff, Molly Ringwald, Stacy Ferguson, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Lisa Whelchel, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Soleil Moon Frye, Melissa Joan Hart, Dean Stockwell, Fred Savage, Neil Patrick Harris, Michelle Chia, Shawn Lee, Joshua Ang, Aloysius Pang, and other Academy Award winners and nominees include; Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland, Jake Gyllenhaal, Joaquin Phoenix, Helen Hunt, Irene Cara, Reese Witherspoon, Hilary Swank, Christian Bale, Saoirse Ronan, Brie Larson, Elizabeth Taylor, and Leonardo DiCaprio. Many actors' careers are short-lived and this is also"
"Julia Louis-Dreyfus Julia Scarlett Elizabeth Louis-Dreyfus (; born January 13, 1961) is an American actress, comedian, and producer. In television comedy, she is known for her work in ""Saturday Night Live"" (1982–1985), ""Seinfeld"" (1989–1998), ""The New Adventures of Old Christine"" (2006–2010), and ""Veep"" (2012–present). She is one of the most awarded actors in American television history, winning more Emmy Awards and more Screen Actors Guild Awards than any other performer (eight of the Emmy awards were for acting, tying Cloris Leachman for the most acting Primetime Emmy wins; she has also received three Emmy Awards for producing). Louis-Dreyfus broke into"
"Currie, Michael Des Barres, Pamela Des Barres, Henry Diltz, John Doe, Corey Feldman, Kim Fowley, Liam Gallagher, Noel Gallagher, Godsmack, Green Day, Debbie Harry, George Hickenlooper, Mick Jagger, Jed the Fish, Joan Jett, Davy Jones, Kato Kaelin, Lance Loud, Courtney Love, Annabella Lwin, Ray Manzarek, Johnny Marr, Chris Martin, Paul McCartney, Mackenzie Phillips, Poe, Monique Powell, Keanu Reeves, Paul Reubens, Brooke Shields, Nancy Sinatra, Phil Spector, Gwen Stefani, Danny Sugerman, Pete Townshend, Ronald Vaughan, George Wendt, Louise Wener, Brian Wilson, Carnie Wilson, Neil Young, and Rob Zombie. Mayor of the Sunset Strip Mayor of the Sunset Strip is a 2003"
"on a Gothic horror novel and a children's adventure screenplay. Litza Bixler Litza Bixler (born 25 August 1970) is an American and British film choreographer, Artistic Director and Writer. She is best known for her work with Edgar Wright<ref name=""Wright/Pegg/Frost Interview""></ref> on ""The World's End"", ""Scott Pilgrim vs. the World"" and ""Shaun of the Dead"". Other films with the Wright/Frost/Pegg stable include Nick Frost's salsa comedy ""Cuban Fury"" and the romantic comedy ""Man Up"" (starring Simon Pegg). Other film and TV projects include ""Peaky Blinders"" (""TV Series""), the musical show ""The Lodge"" for The Disney Channel, the romantic comedy ""I"
"Mary J. Blige Mary Jane Blige (; born January 11, 1971) is an American singer, songwriter, rapper and actress. She started her career as a backing singer on Uptown Records in 1989. She has released 13 studio albums, eight of which have achieved multi-platinum worldwide sales. Blige has won nine Grammy Awards, four American Music Awards, ten Billboard Music Awards and has also received three Golden Globe Award nominations, including one for her supporting role in the film ""Mudbound"" (2017) and another for its second original song ""Mighty River"" for ""Mudbound"", she also received a nomination for the Academy Award"
"debut. The comedy, a remake of the 1939 George Cukor film of the same name, stars Meg Ryan, Annette Bening, Eva Mendes, Debra Messing, and Jada Pinkett Smith. It was released to mostly negative reviews but tripled its budget when worldwide markets were factored in. That same year English and the ensemble cast of ""The Women"" were honored with the Women in Film Crystal award which honors women in communications and media. Diane English Diane English (born May 18, 1948) is an American screenwriter, producer and director, best known for creating the television show ""Murphy Brown"" and writing and directing"